John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is already known to us thanks to this 2008 post by Chross. It includes links to a couple of clips from the two-handed play which might be better known, from a female perspective, as Roberta and the Deep Red Bottom!

Two troubled people meet in a bar in the Bronx and spend the night together. The morning after Roberta works through her issues with Danny in a scene which veers between romantic comedy and heavy psychotherapy.

Danny is knocked back when he tells Roberta that she is forgiven for her past sins:

“Who do you think you are? A priest?”

Losing patience, Danny punishes her with an otk spanking that is intended to lift the burden of guilt that she has been carrying since childhood. Afterwards Danny consoles her and Roberta thanks him; her throbbing bottom a reminder that she can now move on in her life.

Originally produced off-Broadway in 1984, the play has been performed quite regularly ever since and is a favourite with students in theatre workshops and drama classes. It’s so popular in fact that I’m very pleased to be able to present a showcase of no less than FIVE NEW clips which Harry has tracked down for us.

The pretty actress playing Roberta here is wearing skin-tight LEGGINGS! Only four smacks but very solid in impact and definitely NO PADDING!

This 2011 clip is distinct from the others as the sparring couple are played by middle-aged actors. It’s also a filmed version not a “live” performance.

Julia Smyth makes an older but very attractive Roberta in a scene that is lighter in tone and wouldn’t be too out of place in a 1960s sit-com. The director annoyingly focuses on Danny’s face during part of the spanking but overall this is an excellent scene.

Some of the build up is missing but 6 hard spanks are applied to the seat of Alessija Lause’s sweat pants in this very recent production.

The German/Croatian took the best actress award at last summer’s Edinburgh Fringe for her performance.

Just to make up for the last one I’ve included more build up this time. The actress playing Roberta wears jeans and is a real spitfire who needs taming. She finally gets just that at 2.35.

This is included as an example of how NOT to do it. It’s from a drama class and the lack of a chair for the spanker to sit on is probably to blame for this disaster as much as anything.

One final and very interesting piece of news about this play: There is a current production at the Crown City Theatre in Los Angeles, California and Roberta is played by Juliet Landau who played Drusilla in Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

Harry says:

“Sadly I haven’t (yet) found any photos or videos of her being spanked!”

There are photos showing that she wears some nice lingerie (not necessarily during the spanking scene though).

The promo includes an interesting interview with Juliet Landau and has lots of background about the play and her relationship with it.

She also has some helpful advice:

The Crown City Theatre is at 11031 Camarillo Street in North Hollywood, near where Lankershim and Camarillo cross. We play Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 7 PM. The show runs about an hour and fifteen minutes. I am loving the experience, so I hope lots more people come to share in it?

The production has been extended to the 29th January so if you’re able to get down there don’t delay. Or forget to post a comment here afterwards!